You can't kill Chromebook with hardware. Apple needs software if they want more share of that market.

bubblewand 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What software do they need to compete with chromebooks? It has a browser (it could have several browsers, if you want). I personally prefer all their productivity software to Google’s or Microsoft’s, and it’s not a close race, but you can use those on it too. Accessibility, I was shocked to find is kinda awful on Chromebooks when I had to try to configure it, considering their target markets are kids and the elderly, while Apple’s the gold standard at that.

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spogbiper 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://edu.google.com/intl/ALL_us/workspace-for-education/e...

this, basically

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jeffbee 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You misunderstand the market. Chromebooks are bought by bureaucrats. They want provisioning, deployment, management. They want a kid to be able to throw a broken Chromebook into a big garbage bin and grab another one off the shelf and be up and running in 5 seconds.

	▲	jungturk 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		MacOS is well supported by most MDM providers today and iCloud makes it trivial to reprovision the local state on a new device.

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notatoad 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Google account login

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commandersaki 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's exactly why they will kill Chromebook. Better software ecosystem.

	▲	jeffbee 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's great if they intend to, but it would be more convincing if there was any sign of them working on the software at all.

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tedd4u 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Can you say more about what software? (I'm sure the Neo runs Chrome perfectly fine)

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guax 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://chromeos.google/products/device-management/

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jeffbee 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just think about the overall platform. How does MacOS update? It interrupts the user with demands, requires an administrator's password under some circumstances, and takes 20-30 minutes. Now consider how ChromeOS updates: silently and instantly.

	▲	jungturk 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		When deployed as a managed device, the OS updates overnight while there's no active user session.